Found: Taking on Nvidia and betting on transformers with Gavin Uberti from Etched

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

AI startups are everywhere, but there can't be any innovation without proper computing power. This week, Equity is bringing you an episode of our sister show, Found. Found hosts Becca and Dom sat down with Gavin Uberti, co-founder and CEO of Etched, an AI chip startup focusing on developing specialized chips. Gavin shares the bold bet his startup is making on transformer models for AI chips, aiming to take on industry giant Nvidia. They discuss how Etched is developing specialized chips that they claim will be an order of magnitude faster than competitors, and Uberti shares his insights on the future of AI hardware as models continue to rapidly scale up in size and capability.

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0:00.0	This episode is presented by Invest Puerto Rico.
0:03.6	If you believe your business can go anywhere, Puerto Rico is the place.
0:09.2	AI startups are everywhere, but there can't be any innovation without proper computing power.
0:13.8	Today's guest is working on bringing a specific AI trip to market.
0:17.0	He and his company are making a bet that transformer models remain an important architecture for AI models for the years to come.
0:25.0	You're listening to Found TechCrunch's podcast that brings you the stories behind the startups.
0:29.7	And today we're talking to Gavin Uberti, the co-founder and CEO of Etch, a startup that is taking on Navidia with its specialized AI chips.
0:36.9	I'm Beka Scutak, and here to talk
0:38.3	about the future of AI with me is my fabulous co-host. Dominic Maduri Davis. And of course, before we get
0:44.0	to our conversation with Gavin, we have our two truths in a lie, and at the end of the episode,
0:47.7	we'll tell you which one of these statements isn't true. So listen carefully. Is the lie that
0:51.9	Etch found out the hard way how early companies need to provide benefits,
0:55.8	that Etch believes they're already ahead of Navidio when it comes to specialized chips,
0:59.7	or that the plan was always for Gavin to be the CEO.
1:02.5	Ooh, sounds like there's a lot of fun stuff in today's episode.
1:05.6	So you'll have to keep listening to figure out which one of those statements is true and which one is not.
1:09.7	But before we chat with Gavin, a quick reminder to rate and review the show, you can do so wherever you're already listening
1:14.6	to this episode. So it will be super easy on your end and super helpful on ours. But without further
1:20.0	ado, here's our conversation with Gavin.
1:29.9	Hey, Gavin, how's it going?
1:31.4	Going well. How about you, Becca?
1:34.5	I am doing well. Can't complain. Happy to have you on the show.
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